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| A live video feed from the tail of the plane. |
Day/night display. |
These are the exercises the TV tells you to do. |
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What a meal! |
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| Ultra City sounds like it's from the future! But it's just a gas station. |
Lovely rain greeted my arrival. |
Tim and Kieran. |
Cats. |
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| Koppies by the farm. |
Rolly the dog. |
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| Kieran and Tim. |
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Freakish huge neon grasshoppers. |
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| They looked almost alive. |
They were in a big ball when we found them. |
Big scary spider. |
Green creme soda. |
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| At Tim and Kieran's university. |
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Joburg. |
A sign from apartheid times. |
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| Kieran strikes a pose. |
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For some reason the Museum Afrika has a bunch of optical exhibits, like this zoetrope. |
Iron Brew soda. It doesn't taste as manly as it sounds. |
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| At Roman's pizza you can only buy pizzas two at a time. |
Identity cards at the Apartheid Museum. |
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| This is what a museum looks like during load shedding. |
A replica of a solitary confinement cell. It's like a closet. |
Cricket in the yard. |
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Jesse's Zulu workbook. |
Entering Sterkfontein caves. |
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| Behind those bars are where they're excavating Little Foot. |
Flashlight on a baby stalagmite. |
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The underground lake. |
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Returning to the light of day. |
Me and our guide Patrick. |
Here I am at Maropeng. The power was out so we couldn't see the exhibits. |
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| A handwritten power failure schedule at the post office. |
In South Africa you drink Fanta. |
An ostrich at the Rhino and Lion Park. |
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| A springbok. |
Sable antelope. |
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Warthogs. |
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The entrance to the predator section. |
A wild dog. He was so cute! |
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| A lioness, pretty close. |
What kind of animal is that? |
Rhinos. |
Sleepy tiger. |
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| Adorable little tigers. |
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All that separated us was the fence. |
She could have bitten off my finger if she wanted to. |
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We went ice skating at a mall. |
Tim is the master. |
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The Montecasino shopping center. |
It was too windy for a balloon ride. |
A creme soda float. |
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| Here's us kicking ass at Time Crisis. |
A baby crocodile. He could have bitten my finger off if he wanted to. |
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Small crocs. |
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| Notice the chicken feathers lying around. |
Adolescent crocodiles. |
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Big old daddy crocodiles. |
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They don't do much. |
We poked this one through the fence. |
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| Say, "tomato!" |
Yum! |
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Here's the dirt bike track. |
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There's Angela. |
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Camilla, Jesse, Angela, Antoinette, Tim, Sheralee. |
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| Sheralee and Jesse. |
Strawberry Fanta. |
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Richie. |
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| Have fun! |
Here are people rushing to the site of Angela's accident. |
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Richard taking first place in the series. |
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At church. |
A frog who lives in the planter. |
Beata and Richard in the background. |
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| Cathy and Hazel. |
Kiero and Rolly. |
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Foosball at Cool Runnings. |
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| A river at Mountain Sanctuary. |
Bushwhacking through ferns. |
Tim and Mitchell. |
Real-life bump mapping. The rock is not as rough as it appears, it's just shaded that way. |
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Grand canyon. |
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Drinking from the stream like a deer in the forest. |
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More bump mapping. You can probably tell by the shadow that it's not as ridged as it looks. |
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| Relaxing in a slide pool. |
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Tim cave exploring. |
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There are quite a lot of bones and procupine quills down there. |
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Little baby stalactites. |
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| Flowstone. |
The deep pit where bats live. |
I tried to take pictures down the hole. |
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| It was around here when I saw the bats. |
Another big sinkhole. |
A cow skull and pelvis. |
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| They have automatic machines that break in your cricket bat for you. |
Jesse bowling. |
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| Pretty moth. |
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Dinner at Kenjara Lodge. |
The card the Schimanskys gave me. |
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| The beginning of the boat ride back at Maropeng. |
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Steam and mist. |
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The spinning vortex. |
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| It makes you fall down, dizzy. |
Tim dials a dodo. |
There were 6,611,151,979 people alive when I was there. |
Mmm, Sparberry. |
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| Me and Rosalind. |
A dung beetle! Guess what it's doing? |
The stables under construction. |
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| The aviary. |
Horsies. |
An impostor 7-11. |
Fast-forward to Pilanesberg. |
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| A baboon hitchhiking. |
Baboon lookout. |
Big fella. |
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Turtle. |
Baby warthog in the mud. |
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| Our braai site. |
This plaque was attached to a tree. |
Gnu and zebras. |
Gnu crossing. |
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| Giraffes very far off. |
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Another turtle. |
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| Elephant! |
Piotr says it's about three-quarters size. |
Happy buck. |
A rhino, so close his flies were buzzing into the car. |
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The Kowalczyks' backyard. |
Me, Dorota, and Krystyna at the botanical gardens. |
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| The waterfall where the eagle nest is. |
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Froggy! |
Scary bush with thorns. |
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| On the lookout for birds. |
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A cycad. |
Touch a Cub, where you get to pet a lion cub. |
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| Ostriches on the loose. |
Feed a giraffe. |
Look how an ostrich sits down. Isn't it weird? |
See lions close up at the lion park. |
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| That one is carrying a hind leg of antelope. |
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Whoa, that's close enough! |
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| Cats are so lazy. |
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My lovely wrapped gifts. |
Grapes in the side yard. |
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| Lots of people came to send me off. Richard, Piotr, Cathy, Kieran, Jesse, Derek, Tim, and Samantha. |
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